Ramsey Kanaan is a Scottish-Lebanese businessman and publisher of anarchist literature, best known as the founder of AK Press, a distributor of anarchist and left-wing books[1][dead link] named after his mother Ann Kanaan.[2] He left AK in 2007 to found a new radical publisher PM Press.[2][3]

He was involved in the 1980s and early 1990s in the movement against the poll tax in Britain. Community Resistance, the Edinburgh anarchist group with which Kanaan was an organizer,[7] played a key role in the five-year anti-poll tax campaign that ultimately brought down Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[8][not in citation given][9]

^Solnit, David. "Poll Tax Rebellion – How One Small Scottish Anarchist Group Toppled the Thatcher Government: An Interview by David Solnit with Ramsey Kanaan." Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World Ed. David Solnit. City Lights Publishers, 2003.